ENGLISH NEWS.
The Pall Mall Gazeitee says of a certain Irish Court of Law', that it is never so sure to be wrong as when the Judges are unanimous. Incombustible wicks for kerosene lamps are made in Vienna of asbestos, boiled in wax. They last for about a year. In one common stair in the New Town of Edinburgh, no less than 230 souls drag out a wretched existence. An on dil is current in. England that the Queen has settled her estate of Balmoral on the Princess Louise. Biscay law requires that for every tree cut down two must be planted. This law is said to be rigorously enforced. The Jewish Chronicle thinks that there will soon he formed in I ngland a “University Israelitish Alliance,” for the purpose of drawing more closely the ties that bind the Jews of England to their brethem scattered throughout the world, and the first step towards carrying out that object must be to draw more closely the ties that combine the Jew's of England together. It is said that tortoise-shell has nearly ceased to be an article of commerce. Vulcanite lias cut it out.
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2692, 3 October 1871, Page 3
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192ENGLISH NEWS. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2692, 3 October 1871, Page 3
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